
Midlifing
Two friends Lee and Simon have serious conversations about silly things, and silly conversations about serious things. Together they dig into the pleasures, absurdities and imperfections of being human.
Midlifing
Two people monologuing about themselves near one another
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Lee Miller and Simon Ellis
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Episode 26
Simon and Lee discuss itchy feet, talking side by side and starting a cult.
Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net.
Related links (and necessary corrections):
- The Year Earth Changed: https://youtu.be/XswV_yqPq28
- Itching, shingles and cerebrospinal fluid (not for the faint-hearted): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/30/the-itch
- New Zealand OE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_experience
- arse-end of the world: https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195563160.001.0001/acref-9780195563160-e-47
- rumspringa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa
- tourist gaze: https://wallaceandjames.com/term-tourist-gaze-originates-john-urrys-aptly-named-book-tourist-gaze/
- David Koresh and Waco, Texas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Koresh
- Jim Jones and drinking the kool-aid: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/11/drinking-the-kool-aid-a-survivor-remembers-jim-jones/248723/
- Simon couldn't find that 'research' about perception of greenness of grass – his bad
- Yotam Ottolenghi on Masterclass: https://www.masterclass.com/classes/yotam-ottolenghi-teaches-modern-middle-eastern-cooking/chapters/meet-your-instructor-yotam-ottolenghi
- Apollonia Poilâne: https://www.masterclass.com/classes/apollonia-poilane-teaches-bread-baking
- Yotam's Miso, tomato and oregano pasta: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/apr/17/yotam-ottolenghi-15-minute-lunches-recipes
- baker's percentages: https://www.theperfectloaf.com/reference/introduction-to-bakers-percentages/
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Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net.
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The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0)